I'm in the Street Sweeper Social Club FanCorp for crying out loud. I've got mad Morello cred.
Ya but Morello can't sing. I'd rather hear torture screams from my dead grandma in my head than listen to him sing.
So what does that have to do with the Street Sweeper Social Club?
You're probably thinking of his acoustic project "The Nightwatchman" and I know what you're saying. It's a shame too because both of his Nightwatchman albums are full of great songs but his voice is unbearable.
The Christmas number one isn't as important as it once was. It's just the fact that people are getting bored of the predictable sterile pop monopoloy (Morello's words, but they will be used at work with the X-factor crowd today). I would have loved getting a PJ song to number one but I can never, ever see that happenening in the UK as they don't have much of a presence here on the radio. The x-factor dude will earn some money, be famous until about March and noone will ever remember him again. I am glad that the public have spoken and get a proper old fashioned rock song to number one. I actually can't remember the last time a song with a guitar got to number one in the UK. I think it was Def Leppard actually!!
Rock on!!!!
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That's Brilliant that RATM are number one instead of X-factor. The person who came up with the facebook campaign was very clever and original. It does make a mockery of the UK singles chart though but the singles chart in the UK has always been easy to manipulate.
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That's Brilliant that RATM are number one instead of X-factor. The person who came up with the facebook campaign was very clever and original. It does make a mockery of the UK singles chart though but the singles chart in the UK has always been easy to manipulate.
dude! someone is playing a horrible joke on you. they hacked into your account and changed your username!
Those with a problem with Rage, I really dont think you get it, or have followed the campaign at all. Because when its all said and done they knew nothing about it, heard about it through the news, and or course added their voice of support.
To be its just fucking fantastic.
The show in the Uk - free or not - is also right up there with the news from two weeks ago that we had some PJ dates coming our way, well almost
Those with a problem with Rage, I really dont think you get it, or have followed the campaign at all. Because when its all said and done they knew nothing about it, heard about it through the news, and or course added their voice of support.
To be its just fucking fantastic.
The show in the Uk - free or not - is also right up there with the news from two weeks ago that we had some PJ dates coming our way, well almost
Can't wait for this free UK show. It will be amazing
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Amsterdam 1 and 2, Leeds, Milton Keynes Bowl 2014
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What makes this even better (and Simon and X-factor even lamer) is that the song that the X-factor guy was singing was Miley Cyrus song. Kudos to the UK for standing up to crap like that.
Quite honestly the British music scene is a joke. If it's not Pop Idol or X-factor dominating the charts, it's boy/girl 'bands' (and I use that term loosley), over-produced pop tat or something worse. In the states, you have the rock chart, R & B chart etc, we don't. Our radio stations (apart from a very small percentage) play nothing but pop music with the odd Foo Fighters/Green Day track thrown in, you have to listen to BBC 6Music, BBC Radio 1 (at select times only) or dare I say it, Kerrang or XFM to hear rock music. I would love to hear Pearl Jam on the radio over here, but I have only heard about four tracks and three of those are from Ten!
Rock on!!!!
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"We've invited him [Cowell] to be the presenter of our free show so we have to see how he responds," explained the guitarist. "I will say I heard Simon Cowell graciously called Jon [Morter] to congratulate him. Rage Against The Machine is waiting for our congratulatory call because we're Number One."
Morello added that Rage Against The Machine had yet to earmark a date or venue for the free gig, but insisted they would live up to their promise.
"We're thrilled about doing it. It's going to be the victory celebration to end all victory celebrations. If 'Killing In The Name' is the song that liberated the UK charts, we are planning to go there and make it as big and as free as can be," he declared.
"The band is going to have a victory celebration here [in Los Angeles] at a local UK-style fish'n'chips pub on Tuesday night and we'll probably be clinking glasses and drinking a toast to our great fans and comrades in the UK, but we may start getting some ideas together of when this is going to happen."
Morello said that the band only got involved in the campaign after taking a lead from their fans.
"We were followers in this campaign, we tried to lend some wind to its sails, but it began at a completely grassroots level without the band's involvement," he explained. "Once we got in, we got in all the way, in those last four hours of the campaign I sent about 50 of the most storm the barricade Twitters that a man could send to try and encourage one last push.
"Make no mistake about it, this was a political act! This was an entire nation delivering a stinging slap of rejection to the whole notion of pre-fabricated pop ruling the charts. And Rage's victory over The X Factor was an act of God. That the bad winter weather came in, keeping people away from stores and made it more of a fair fight, because we didn’t have hard copies in stories. When Paul McCartney and Mother Nature agree on something it's going to be unstoppable!"
The guitarist added that he hoped the spirit behind the campaign could be used for wider issues in the future.
"Rage Against The Machine was built for moments like this," Morello declared. "That historic chart upset the other night is one we're very proud to have been a part of, but more proud that it showed that people uniting in solidarity can do anything. That's the lasting message from this. It went from being 'let's kick The X Factor off the top of the charts' to a real people's movement and, in the future, the energy behind it can be used for other social justice causes and not just chart-topping."
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How did it work when Pink Floyd etc played the Live 8 show? Similar to HRC?
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marlee matlin knows more about good music than simon cowell does.
Ya but Morello can't sing. I'd rather hear torture screams from my dead grandma in my head than listen to him sing.
So what does that have to do with the Street Sweeper Social Club?
You're probably thinking of his acoustic project "The Nightwatchman" and I know what you're saying. It's a shame too because both of his Nightwatchman albums are full of great songs but his voice is unbearable.
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
Seen Pearl Jam 4 times in London, once in Manchester, as well as an Eddie show at Hammersmith.
London Shepherds Bush Empire 2009, Manchester Evening News Arena 2009, London O2 Arena 2009
Dublin, Belfast, Hyde Park 2010
Manchester Arena 1 and 2, Stockholm, Oslo 2012
Amsterdam 1 and 2, Leeds, Milton Keynes Bowl 2014
Wrigley Field 1 and 2 2016
London 1 and 2 2018
Fenway Park 1 and 2 2018
Those with a problem with Rage, I really dont think you get it, or have followed the campaign at all. Because when its all said and done they knew nothing about it, heard about it through the news, and or course added their voice of support.
To be its just fucking fantastic.
The show in the Uk - free or not - is also right up there with the news from two weeks ago that we had some PJ dates coming our way, well almost
Can't wait for this free UK show. It will be amazing
London Shepherds Bush Empire 2009, Manchester Evening News Arena 2009, London O2 Arena 2009
Dublin, Belfast, Hyde Park 2010
Manchester Arena 1 and 2, Stockholm, Oslo 2012
Amsterdam 1 and 2, Leeds, Milton Keynes Bowl 2014
Wrigley Field 1 and 2 2016
London 1 and 2 2018
Fenway Park 1 and 2 2018
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
Seen Pearl Jam 4 times in London, once in Manchester, as well as an Eddie show at Hammersmith.
and Charlie Brown is a animal molester!!........that's why Snoopy didn't want to come home!!
Butthead: It means that his friends are like turds and that they like suck.
Beavis: Heh heh. Oh yeah. Yeah! Get those spoons out of my face before I shove them up your butt!
Butthead: Huh huh.
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May 17th 2010 Boston, May 20th 2010 MSG, May 21st 2010 MSG.
June 28th Berlin, July 9th Bilbao
EV solo: 22nd June NYC, 25th June Philly 2011
Alpine Valley 3rd & 4th September 2011, Montreal 7th September 2011